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A strategic plan for public education

The Seattle Times

Washington needs top teachers!

Educators and administrators across the nation have long debated how to attract top students into careers in teaching, and a new fellowship affiliated with our own University of Washington might just be the ticket.


I loved this luncheon

Waiting on the corner of 5th and Olive, I stood behind a man dressed sharply in his brown suit. "I bet he's going the the Prosperity Partnership (PP) luncheon," I thought to myself. (C'mon, you and I both know higher ed folks wear a lot of suits.) I followed him across the street, through the revolving doors into the Westin, past the lobby and up the escalators. Who needs the perfectly positioned signs with arrows directing me to the luncheon? I had brown suit man.


It's all just flat.

"Our education system is falling flat." That's what head honcho Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, told the National Governors Association at their annual meeting.


Science Contest Puts US Kids on Int'l Field